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Aprilskin Magic-Cara Mascara Review!

This time I’ll review the Aprilskin Magic-Cara Mascara that I got last time I visited Myeongdong. These days there’s a big hype about Aprilskin, especially because they opened their first offline store inside the Lotte Young Plaza in Seoul Myeongdong! Many people streamed there to be one of the first people to buy and get incredible discount at the shop. I visited right on their first days when they had a 50% discount offer and got me a few things from the brand. Btw I got a free mirror because I uploaded a picture of my visit on Facebook.

I actually just have one mascara I am using everyday (Dolly Wink) and I thought it’s time for a backup. So I decided to buy the mascara since it is was only 9.000 Won.

The Mascara comes with two brushes: one skinny side and one volume side. I totally dislike the skinny brushes because all I tried so far had no effect on my already quite long black lashes. But this mascara has a volume brush too, so I thought if I don’t like this brush as well I can at least use the volume brush. But it should become my new favorite mascara including the skinny brush!

The Aprilskin Magic-cara is not waterproof and can be removed easily. It stays all day if you don’t rub your eyes or wash your face. I love to wear it for both, day and evening makeup. The It should be applied in two easy steps: 1. use the skinny side for elongate your lashes and define them. Also your lashes stay seperate eventhough you use the volume brush in the 2. step. Also, you can reach the inner smaller lashes and also – if you have round eyes like me – the outer angled lashes. Then as mentioned, the 2. step is the volumizing brush that gives a fuller look. If you want to go for a clear and defined look you can just skip the second step.

I think the Aprilskin Magic-cara is a really good product regarding the price. Sometimes the lashes stick together, especially if I am in a hurry I just quickly apply it, but honestly, is there any volume brush that is perfectly separating the lashes while giving volume? I didn’t find that mascara yet.

Aprilskin Magic-cara Review

What I love:

The Quality – Two brushes, two options and a good quality compared to the price

The Price – On sale definitely even one of my cheapest mascaras!

The Effect – Finally I got volume on my lashes without using falsies!

What I hate:

Not Waterproof – I wish they had a waterproof option, too

Sticky – Sometimes lashes stick together, but thats not a big problem

Besides my Dolly Wink Mascara the Aprilskin Magic-cara became my favourite mascara for looks with fuller lashes but without false lashes. This product is definitely one I’d say it is really worth its money. And if the ad is true, it is even a product with natural ingredients. (Aprilskin’s slogan is „Solution from Nature“). If you want to buy one but live overseas you can buy one on their website!

I already used it for a while now and created a lot of looks with it.

Thank you for reading! If you need to buy a new mascara – that was my recommendation! See you next time!

Rilakkuma x A’PIEU Series Part 3 Review!

This review includes:

The A’PIEU Skinny Mascara Rilakkuma Edition No. 1 Long Lash

The A’PIEU Nail Color & Sticker Set Rilakkuma Edition

I was so happy when I saw that they are continuing their collaboration with Rilakkuma and his friends and of course I went to the store to get my products! Let’s start with the Rilakkuma x A’PIEU Skinny Mascara in No. 1 Long Lash.

Rilakkuma x A’PIEU Skinny Mascara Long Lash

Actually when I saw it the first time I was not very impressed by the packaging because it’s just yellow and I am actually not a fan of this color.. It’s too bold for me haha. But anyway don’t judge by appearance, right? lol

The brush is one of these „skinny“ brushes that are said to apply the mascara without sticking the lashes together like glue and make it look overloaded.

Actually I didn’t see any big difference. I got darker and a tiny little longer lashes but since I already have black longer lashes it gave barely any effect. Sorry I didn’t eat makeup in my picture only the mascara and no lenses this time..

While applying it I felt like there was no product on the brush after one stroke. Like the brush doesn’t carry enough mascara.

Also after a long day outside and probably some accitential eye-wiping I had the feeling that there was barely any mascara left of my lashes because the end of them became a little blonde as they are naturally.

The Rilakkuma x A’PIEU Skinny Mascara Long Lash Review:

What I love:

The Price – it’s very cheap

What I hate:

The Design – just this yellow it not my style

The Effect – I’m missing it

The Quality – after a few hours the product is gone

I will not buy it again. It’s cheap, yes but I would rather save the money for a better one.

The Rilakkuma x A’PIEU Nail Color & Sticker Set

The Nail Color Set includes a sticker sheet and three nail colors in yellow, beige and brown, like the three San-X friends. With this set you can create the typical „face“ look on your nails like I did or just create other rilakkuma themed nail art.

The colors are nice and bold and dry quickly but there is a twist. Especially the yellow and brown color leave a yellow stain on the nails and it looks like you have some sickness. I forgot to take a picture of my nails when I removed it, but you can imagine that it’s the same with red nail color without a base under it.

Omg sorry these messy nails haha I didn’t think it was that bad when I took the photo..

So, when I was visiting again they sold another version of the nail color set – I bought it out of curiousity (without reading what’s inside) to see if it’s different from the first version. This time the set includes a milky moisturizing fluid, brown color and transparent topcoat nail laquer and a sheet of stickers. So its actually completely different from the first.

The milky fluid (Nail Mate Nail Moisture) smells fruity and is a treatment you apply on the nail and skin and massage it until it’s absorbed. For color you have actually only one option: Brown (Glow Nail Touch). The color is similar to the first kit’s one. One time is enough to fully cover the nail without empty lines. It’s a nice choco brown I would also wear without the stickers during the colder months.

The top coat is actually not any special, it makes the coat sparkly like you just applied the color and keeps the sticker from falling off. So you should use the kit in 3 steps: Treatment, Color and Top Coat.

The Rilakkuma x A’PIEU Nail Color & Sticker Set Review:

The first kit:

What I love:

The Stickers – so cute and easy design!

The Price – 3 Colors and Stickers for 7.000 is actually pretty cheap

What I hate:

The Quality – The brown and yellow color leave a yellow stain! >.<

The second kit:

What I love:

The Stickers – same stickers, same designs

The Price – same price as the first

The included Products – I think the products in this kit are much better than the first, since it includes treatment, color and topcoat!

What I hate:

The Quality – The nail colors ares still no high quality nail colors^^

For both kits: I think if you are a huge fan like me of the cute little friends you should invest in the nail kit. I like the second one more than the first because I am not using the yellow color that often. I don’t know if it was my own fault, but when I tried to get the sticker off the sheet, it broke into two pieces.. So you should be careful and maybe use tweezers to apply it (I used my nails and fingers).

Many asked me where I bought the products and I was surprised how many Rilakkuma fans are out there! ^.^ Of course I will let you know!

I bought them at the A’PIEU stores in Seoul! There is one next to Ewha Womans University and one in Hongdae near Exit 9! Lately the products are available at Watson’s as well! If you are living overseas you can still get your Rilakkuma dose by ordering online!

Hope you love Rilakkuma as much as I do and have fun with the Rilakkuma x A’PIEU collaboration (^-^)/

With their german online shop Missha finally made it happen that girls from germany could order Missha products online from germany and a while ago they also opended their first offline shop!

Sadly I can’t go there but I ordered some products from their website and one of them was the MISSHA The Style Viewer 270 Dolly Eye Mascara (Princess Volume)!

Missha is well known for their BB Cream (I posted a review a long time ago) but I was interested in some other kind of makeup so I decided to order this cute looking mascara, since I needed one.

The mascara comes with a volumizing brush, it’s tip is a bit thinner, you can reach the small lashes in the inner corner, too and create doll like eyes. It’s a non-waterproof type and can be removed easily with makeup remover, but doesn’t immediately smudge if you have contact with water or have teary eyes. I think that’s a pretty good point.

I really like the volumizing effect, because the lashes are not drowning in mascara after one layer and sticking together. I took some photos before and after applying the mascara:

BEFORE:

and here’s the result AFTER applying the Missha Dolly Eye Princess Volume Mascara

:

The layer seems a bit thick but keep in mind that I took a photo of just my eyes^^ and to be honest I applied in a little hurry… bit with some effort the result will be really beautiful!! I swear! :3

The Missha Dolly Eye Princess Volume Mascara:

What I love:

The Effect – (realistic) volume for your lashes

The Comfort – no crumbles, not hard as stone

The Price – 9,90€ (without shipping) is a quite reasonable price

The Brush – Big, volumizing part and thin tip for the smaller lashes

Not-Waterproof-but-also-not-non-resistant – if you know what I mean haha

What I hate:

Nothing, I will buy it again. xD

The mascara reminds a little of the Lancôme Hypnôse Doll Eyes Mascara. But somehow I wasn’t that disappointed of the „volumizing“ effect as I was when I bought the Lancôme Mascara. I think the Volume is quite similar to the lancome one, but I paid 2/3 of the price for it.. This defenitely my pick for everyday makeup!

I will enjoy my birthday with some cake and coffee and what will you do today? ^-^